Bodybuilding and cardio machines have their place and are fantastic tools to develop your body’s ability to exert more force and move for longer periods. Stronger and fitter is always better, but these attributes are a foundation for other things and not end-goals in and of themselves. In our opinion, the body is a complex machine that can do all sorts of fantastic things, and if you are reading this, you also can enhance your body’s movement patterns and characteristics — so, the question is “What should you be doing?” And is this lockdown period preventing you from reaching your goals?

“I don’t get it; I haven’t made any progress in the last 15 years. I’m 47 years old, I sleep 5 hours a night, I argue with my wife, have three kids, I’m stressed out and I’m angry and tired all of the time.”  

I had a lot of conversations over the last years with people trying to better themselves and the quote above sums up the problem beautifully. It can look like a joke when you see it from the outside, but this is the reality for many people – and they cannot see it themselves.

When making a training program or when accessing your training, it is useful to have a vocabulary that can separate our overall training structure into distinct sub-modalities or different ways in which your training is stressing your body.

When you want to go somewhere, two questions are critical – “What is the destination?” and “How are you going to get there?”